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Andean
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English
Etymology
en :af Andes -an 1
From en Andes Ande(s) -an, from en es -, perhaps from en qu - qu andi high crest.
Pronunciation
en /ˈæn.di.ən/ /ænˈdiː.ən/
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en iən ændiən 3
en An de an
Adjective
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Of or pertaining to the Andes mountains in South America.
en 1972 Lytle Robinson Edgar Cayceʼs Story of the Origin and Destiny of Man USA Berkley Publishing Corporation 106 5 Under the later Inca professional farms, the whole of the realm from the coast to the upper Amazon River became a flowering centre of plant domestication. More than half of the foods that the world eats today were developed by these Andean farmers. More kinds of food and medicinal plants were systematically cultivated here than in any other area of the world. Among them are potatoes, squash, tomatoes, beans, peanuts, peppers, papaya, cashews, pineapples, chocolate, avocadoes, mulberries, strawberries.
en 2013-08-10 408 8848 w:The Economist http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21583270-new-zealands-plan-regulate-designer-drugs-better-trying-ban-them-and-failing-new A new prescription As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. https://web.archive.org/web/20200810112055/https://www.economist.com/leaders/2013/08/10/a-new-prescription
2023, Marco Aquino, Sarah Morland, and Isabel Woodford (Reuters), Peruvians divided as ex-president, jailed for massacres, walks free, in: The Christian Science Monitor, December 7 2023
An imprisoned ex-president of Peru was released on humanitarian grounds on Dec. 6, stoking controversy in the Andean nation.
Synonyms
en Andine
Derived terms
en Andean fox Andean cross Andean mountain cat Andean coot Andean solitaire Andean Mountain Range Andeanness
Related terms
en Andes
Translations
of or pertaining to the Andes mountains
Arabic: ar أَنْدِيزِيّ
Catalan: ca andí
Czech: cs andský
Danish: da andinsk
Esperanto: eo Anda
French: fr andin
Hungarian: hu andoki
Ido: io Andana
Irish: ga Aindéiseach
Italian: it andino
Macedonian: mk андски
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb andinsk
Nynorsk: nn andinsk
Polish: pl andyjski
Portuguese: pt andino
Quechua: qu anti
Russian: ru андский
Slovene: sl andski
Spanish: es andino
Swedish: sv andinsk
Tagalog: tl Andino
Noun
Someone from the Andes.
Translations
someone from the Andes
Ido: io Andano
Irish: ga Aindéiseach m
Italian: it andino m, it andina f
Spanish: es andino m, es andina f
Tagalog: tl Andino
Anagrams
en aadenn Deanna